A Dieta with the Pajé Tatá of the Yawanawa Tribe in the Amazon Forest

source: GoogleTechTalks  2016年2月19日
Jordão de Melo e Souza visited Google Los Angeles on January 21, 2016.
Abstract:
This is a report about a period of study, called a “dieta,” with one of the great Pajés (shamans) of the Western Amazon. The Pajé is Tatá from the Yawanawa, a tribe of about 800 people who settle near the Gregorio River in the state of Acre in Western Brazil. The Yawanawa have a rich culture and deep knowledge of entheogenic and medicinal plants. According to estimates from experts in ethnobotany at the Smithsonian about 95% of the plants used by the Yawanawa are not yet characterized. The dieta which extends over a period of twelve months involved moving to a small hut in the middle of the forest built for this purpose and beginning a strict dietary regimen of only drinking a manioc juice and eating a type of small fish. Prepared in this way, Jordão was introduced by Tatá to various forest medicines and their associated rituals as well as to songs, prayers, meditations and various healing techniques.
Bio:
Jordão de Melo e Souza was born in 1993 in Rio de Janeiro. He is studying civil engineering at the PUC University in Rio. His areas of interest include sustainability in construction, management of forest resources and social inclusion in civili engineering. Jordão is a board member of the "Indigenous Celebration" NGO that is developing projects aimed at supporting the Yawanawa people. He is also involved in bringing up the infotainment park Topo da Mata in Rio de Janeiro. Jordão is the grandson of Padrinho Sebastião Mota de Melo, a known religious leader in the Santa Daime tradition. In 1985 his father Paulo Roberto Silva e Souza organized and led the scientific commission that convinced the Brazilian government to legalize ayahuasca for religious uses. This exposed him from early childhood to Amazonian shamanism and spirituality.

David Harvey "The End of Capitalism"

source: Noam Chomsky Videos    2013年11月8日
David Harvey, Professor of Geography and Anthropology
Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Three years after the near collapse of global financial markets, America is still struggling with unemployment, debt, and foreclosure, European governments are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy—and the world's billionaires are getting richer faster than ever before. The current situation is not sustainable. But what changes need to be made to overcome this mounting crisis of our world economic system? How radical an adaptation will be required? David Harvey, the brilliant theorist and scathing critic of postmodern society, looks at what the future holds for global capitalism.

Senior Loeb Scholar lecture: David Harvey

source: Harvard GSD    2016年3月30日
It is David Harvey’s contention that the production of space, especially the distribution and organization of the territory, constitutes a principal aspect of capitalist economies. His writings on this theme have contributed to the ongoing political debate on globalization and on the different spatial strategies associated to global processes. A foundation of Harvey’s intellectual project is his “close reading” and interpretation of Karl Marx’s Capital, which he has taught and read for decades and documented in his Companion to Marx’s Capital (2010). But Harvey’s work is distinguished by the way he has brought Marxism together with geography with productive results for each discipline. For instance, he has approached the overaccumulation of capital by way of its reflection in spatial expansion in order to demonstrate its causative role. His book Limits to Capital (1982), which traces this argument, is a mainstay of the contemporary understanding of capitalism’s perennial economic crises (among others are Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism (1972), Giovanni Arrighi’s Long 20th Century (1994) and Robert Brenner’s Economics of Global Turbulence (2006)).Among other ideas, Harvey is known for his critical interpretation of the ideas of Henri Lefebvre and his own formulation of the “right to the city.” His book Spaces of Hope (2000) explores a role for architecture in bridging between the human body and the uneven development that is characteristic of globalization. Asked to single out a favorite of Harvey’s books, Dean Mohsen Mostafavi refers to Harvey’s book Social Justice and the City (1973) as “an important articulation of the relationship between the city as a physical artifact and its social consequences. His writings have provided an acute analysis of our society and provide an indispensable framework for new forms of spatial imagination."David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), is the 2015–2016 Senior Loeb Scholar.

Psychology Fundamentals (Fall 2015) by Mark Steyvers

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source: UCI Open 2015年10月7日
UCI Psych 9B: Psych Fundamentals (Fall 2015)
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Description: This one of the three courses that are a part of a three-quarter series, cross-listed as "Social Ecology Psy Beh P11 A, B, C" or "Social Sciences Psych 9 A, B, C." All three courses are offered every quarter and can be taken in any order. The series is designed to give students a strong foundation in the major research areas of psychology, including such areas as human cognitive and social development, memory, language, emotional and social behavior, psychopathology, and neuroscience. This course sequence is required for students majoring in Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology and for students majoring in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences. These courses can also be taken by non-majors. In this course specifically, referred to as "Psy Beh P11B" or "Psych 9B," topics to be covered include memory, thinking, language, learning, and cognitive development
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PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault

source: The School of Life    2015年7月3日
Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn't see the progress that's routinely assumed. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
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Robert M. Wallace: The Mystery of Hegel

source: Gottfried Leibniz   2011年12月10日

Robert M. Wallace reads his paper and discusses Hegel.

Dr Homi Bhabha - Concluding Remarks - Urban (Re)Imagination conference

source: IndiaCultureLab    2013年2月25日
Dr Homi Bhabha is the director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University and Senior Avisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power among other themes. Some of his books include Nation and Narration and The Location of Culture. Dr. Bhabha attended the Urban (Re)Imagination conference held at the Godrej India Culture Lab on 15 January 2012, interacted with the speakers and performers, and synthesized the day's proceedings into these wonderful concluding remarks.

Stacy Schiff: "The Witches: Salem, 1692" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google   2016年2月24日
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss her book, "The Witches: Salem, 1692".
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. "The Witches: Salem, 1692" puts a story we thought we knew into an entirely different light.
Stacy Schiff is the author of "Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)", winner of the Pulitzer Prize; "Saint-Exupéry", Pulitzer Prize finalist; "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America", winner of the George Washington Book Prize; and "Cleopatra: A Life".